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A Symposium on Popular Songs

Sixty Years of Syncopation...FROM "RAGTIME" TO THE "BIG BEAT"

5.5(18)196220m2

Professor Ludwig von Drake plays a variety of popular music, all of which he wrote. First, ragtime: the Rutabaga Rag, with vegetables dancing in stop-motion. Next, the Charleston, with cut-out animation of a singer and dancers. Dixieland and more cut-out animation; the crooner/love ballad; 50's doo-wop; and finally, rockabilly.

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English
  • violin
  • sun
  • tomato
  • spotlight
  • stop motion
  • ragtime
  • yo yo
  • part animation
  • strawberry
  • charleston
  • short film
  • teenager

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Bill Justice

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United States of America

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  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR19 Dec 1962

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A Symposium on Popular Songs was released on 19 December 1962.

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    CinemaSerf

    4/19/2026

    6/10

    Arriving at the mansion of acclaimed maestro "Prof Ludwig von Drake", we are shown into his music room where he invites us on a tour of American musical styles through the ages - all of which, of course, were his own original work! With some help from the Sherman brothers - who manage to rhyme synchopate with a surprising number of other words, we proceed to enjoy just about everything from baked potatoes to "Betty B…

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